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The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday, sentence 87

It was so that he had to hire a great many men to help him home with his wealth, which was more than any one person ever had before.

Who acts: It, wealth, one person · What happens: be, hire, help, have · To what, where: great many men, half

This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Wouldn’t Keep Sunday. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, wealth, one person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjcopmarkfixednsubjmarkxcompdetamodamodobjmarkadvclobjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjcopacl:relclcasedetnummodobladvmodacl:relcladvmodpunctrootItPRONwasAUXsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONhadVERBtoPARThireVERBaDETgreatADJmanyADJmenNOUNtoPARThelpVERBhimPRONhomeADVwithADPhisPRONwealthNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXmoreADJthanADPanyDEToneNUMpersonNOUNeverADVhadVERBbeforeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 hadnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 hadcop
3sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ6 hadmark
4thatthatSCONJ_3 sofixed
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 hadnsubj
6hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7totoPART_8 hiremark
8hirehireVERBVerbForm=Inf6 hadxcomp
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 mendet
10greatgreatADJDegree=Pos12 menamod
11manymanyADJDegree=Pos12 menamod
12menmanNOUNNumber=Plur8 hireobj
13totoPART_14 helpmark
14helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf8 hireadvcl
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 helpobj
16homehomeADV_14 helpadvmod
17withwithADP_19 wealthcase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 wealthnmod:poss
19wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing14 helpobl
20,,PUNCT_23 morepunct
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel23 morensubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 morecop
23moremoreADJDegree=Cmp19 wealthacl:relcl
24thanthanADP_27 personcase
25anyanyDETPronType=Ind27 persondet
26oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 personnummod
27personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing23 moreobl
28evereverADVPronType=Ind29 hadadvmod
29hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 personacl:relcl
30beforebeforeADV_29 hadadvmod
31..PUNCT_6 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastIthalf nsubj; have propertytree rules
2hireto-infinitivea great many menvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3helpto-infinitivehalfwith half's wealth; home propertyvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with wealth=Theme
4ispasthalf's wealththan any one person; more propertytree rules
5havepastany one person not said hereeverbefore propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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